[Mageia-dev] help wanted for building a buildnode-in-a-VM

Fri Mar 11 09:33:10 CET 2011

Op vrijdag 11 maart 2011 00:27:48 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 à 21:52 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> > Op donderdag 10 maart 2011 16:35:25 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> > > Le jeudi 10 mars 2011 12:17:11, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> > > > The easiest way to setup a buildsystem is using puppet. Otherwise it
+> > > > will be more difficult.
+> > > 
+> > > Could someone from the sysadmins write (if it has not been done
+> > > already) a quick guide for puppet use, for example "how to deploy a
+> > > buildnode using puppet" ? I guess that would help Maarteen a lot :)
+> > > 
+> > > Samuel
+> > 
+> > It would help Maarten a lot :-)
+> 
+> - install puppet
+> - take the svn of admin
+>    svn co svn://svn.mageia.org/adm/ /etc/puppet/
+> 
+> and then something like :
+> puppetd --test --tags buildnode
+> 
+> ( not sure about this )
+> 
+> However, I do not recommend this, as I think what maarten want is to
+> have iurt, not the whole scheduling system and upload system of the
+> build system.
+
+it would be a nice feature to have some kind of buildnode-alike for padawans 
+to be able to try submission, but i think the benefits are very slim, not 
+enough to warrant time spent on making that work, imho.
+
+> > one extra question, if i use puppet to install it, it will be exactly
+> > like the current buildnode now?
+> 
+> Well our buildnode run on mandriva, your vm will likely be a mageia. So
+> that's already a difference.
+> 
+> > but is puppet then installed on it? because i don't want to give people
+> > the impression that if they install this vm, that the mageia sysadmins
+> > would have full control over their vm...
+> 
+> Well, if puppet is started and start to put our ssh keys as root, yes,
+> we will have access to the vm, provided that 1) we have network access
+> 2) time to lose on this ( neither are credible possibility ).
+
+True, but from security purposes, that's not a good idea. better would be at 
+that moment to just remove puppet from VM, IMHO.
+
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+
+yeah, so i'm gonna see how far it get with iurt...
+